BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK

SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker researching the brutal 1976 Thammasat University massacre sits down to interview an aging former student activist for a film she may never finish — and from that fragile encounter, director Anocha Suwichakornpong spins a shape-shifting meditation on memory, art, and the impossibility of ever truly capturing history. Identities dissolve and reform across timelines as actors, waitresses, and even a field of mushrooms seem to carry pieces of the same restless soul. Hypnotic and formally daring, it’s a film about the ghosts that survive when official history refuses to speak their names.